The phrase "mitigate the severity" is both correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to express the idea of reducing or lessening the impact of something, usually something negative or unpleasant. For example, "Although we are unable to completely resolve the dispute, our goal is to mitigate the severity of its effects on both sides."
These medications can mitigate the severity of such migraines and make them occur less frequently.
By nature a moderate man, he sought to mitigate the severity of the Star Chamber sentences and to prevent many of the court's illegal practices, such as the hanging of men for resisting press gangs.
In winter, cold and dense air masses encircle the eastern portions of the country, with the cold northeasterly known as the crivăț blowing in from the Russian Plain, and oceanic air masses from the Azores, in the west, bring rain and mitigate the severity of the cold.
Sweden, which ran into trouble in the early 1990s, suffered three years in which GDP shrank at an average rate of almost 1.5%.Dramatically looser monetary policy, together with some fiscal easing, can help to mitigate the severity of the downturn now under way.
When the government established the Federal Reserve in 1913 as a lender of last resort, to mitigate the severity of financial panics, and then, 20 years later, created deposit insurance in response to the Depression, those protections were intended for commercial banks that provided savings products and loans to American consumers and businesses.
Nevertheless, a powerful tool for the defense is the Supreme Court's requirement, announced in the seminal decision in Brady v. Maryland, that prosecutors must provide the defendant with all "exculpatory" information that might negate evidence of a person's guilt or mitigate the severity of the punishment.
Innovations in passive railway infrastructure designs for mitigating the severity of collision induced derailments are rare.
Comparison of the two cases shows that the existing DTVS design is effective in mitigating the severity of the containment pressure and temperature transients.
One intervention that may assist in mitigating the severity of injury is presence of a sports medicine clinician such as a physician or athletic trainer (AT).
In fact, it is known that antiviral drugs are effective both in preventing infection as well as mitigating the severity of infection, with the former probably more important than the latter [9], [29] [33].
To date, immunization strategies inducing cytotoxic CD8 T cells (CTLs) have impressively mitigated the severity of infection in nonhuman primates following challenge with SIV or SIV with an HIV envelope (SHIV), but have not prevented the acquisition of infection.
